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- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
9 February 2027
Summary
An illuminating conversation between Nobel Prize-winning author Annie Ernaux and esteemed sociologist and educator Rose-Marie Lagrave offering invaluable insights from both their lives and work.
More than a dialogue or a debate, these conversations between Ernaux and Lagrave touch on many subjects, from the feminist future to each woman’s class histories as seen through the prism of the socio-historic transformations of the postwar period. One an author and the other a sociologist, th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781644215753 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1644215756 |
| Author: | Annie Ernaux, Rose-Marie Lagrave, Claire Melot, Claire Tomasella, Paul Pasquali, Alison L. Strayer |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 9 February 2027 |
| Weight: | 153g |
| Dimensions: | 8mm x 140mm x 210mm |
Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux was born in Lillebonne in Normandy, France, in 1940. In 1974, she published her first novel, Cleaned Out, followed in 1977 by What They Say or Else and in 1981 by A Frozen Woman. In 1983, her fourth book, A Man’s Place, a portrait of her father, was published and won the Renaudot Prize in 1984, establishing her as a significant literary voice in France. Over the following decades, she continued to publish, with each book offering new insights and explorations. Ernaux was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2022, having previously received the International Strega, the Prix Formentor, and numerous other accolades for her contributions to literature.
Rose-Marie Lagrave
Rose-Marie Lagrave was born in Paris in 1944. She became a licensed sociologist in 1969 and defended her graduate thesis in 1979, which was published the following year as Le village romanesque. In 1982, she attended seminars on popular culture, including one on “Women, Feminism and Research.” In 1987 or 1988, she met Pierre Bourdieu at the College de France. Lagrave has contributed to numerous publications on feminism, utopia, and Communism in Eastern Europe. She is the author of Voyage aux pays d’une utopie dechue Paidoyer pour l’Europe centrale (1998) and Se ressaisir. Enquate autobiographique d’une transfuge de classe feministe (2021).
Sarah Carlotta Hechler
Sarah Carlotta Hechler is a scholar of political science and comparative literature. She studied at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and earned a master’s degree from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). She is currently a research associate at the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin and is pursuing her doctorate at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of the Free University of Berlin.
Claire M Lot
Claire M Lot is a researcher whose doctoral thesis examines how political, phenomenological, and artistic practices influence our experience of space. Her interdisciplinary work integrates critical theory and architecture. She has published in various journals, including Trajectoires, Diffrakt, and Textimage.
Claire Tomasella
Claire Tomasella is a Ph.D. candidate at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris and an associate researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin. She holds master’s degrees in comparative literature (Paris-IV Sorbonne), journalism (Sciences Po Paris), and history (EHESS). She has also worked as an editor and journalist.
Paul Pasquali
Paul Pasquali is a sociologist and researcher at the CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research) and a member of IRIS (the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Social Issues). His research focuses on social mobility in contemporary France, particularly upward mobility through education. He also studies the history of social science methods, archival practices, and scholarly careers in the twentieth century.
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